BREAKING NEWS: LEN SAVAGE ON LOU DOBBS TONIGHT

From David Codrea of War on Guns.

BREAKING NEWS: LEN SAVAGE ON LOU DOBBS TONIGHT

I just got off the phone with Len Savage.

Lou Dobbs Tonight is featuring him in two segments. Per show producer Chris Murphey:

We will possibly split this story into a two part event…either way we’ll be running something tonight in the show…airs 7P-8p EST on CNN…unsure of the hit time for this piece, but expect it in the first half-hour.

So it may be one segment tonight and another segment tomorrow. Anyway, plan on watching this, or else program your recorder if you can't. Expect legal and technical issues to be explored that you have not seen on "mainstream" television before. At this point, we have every reason to believe the coverage will be fair and comprehensive.

UPATE: In case they repeat it, the 2nd Amendment story runs from :35 mins after to about :41 mins. They're going to have more on this story tomorrow they said. Tonights story focused on the man who was convicted of illegally transferring a machine gun when an AR-15 he loaned someone malfunctioned and doubled after having 800 rounds shot through it. I thought tonights show was very sympathetic to the 2nd Amendment and gun owners. Lou Dobbs proclaimed himself a gun owner too on the show.

"The NRA wants to arm even blind people and..."

I can just hear the anti's heads exploding over this...



Good on him! Some idiot crook decides that he's an easy mark because of his disability and gets more than he bargained for. I like the Police's response to this too. I just hope they give him his gun back soon, seeing as how CNN announced to the world that he's unarmed now.

How much do you want to bet he had the same bullets in the gun since he got it? I'm also betting it was probably a revolver.

New Game! Spot the Anti Lies!

Philly gunning for more control

With more than 300 murders so far this year, Philadelphia has been struggling to contain gun violence.

If I was a Philadelphia resident, I could walk into any gun shop in the city and buy 50, 100, even 1,000 guns, just like that. All they would do is run an instant background check, and assuming my record was clean, I'd walk out with all that firepower.

There's no waiting period, no rules on who I can and can't sell those weapons to. In fact, state law says I don't even have to get a license for the guns or register them.

Could this be contributing to the gun violence in Philadelphia? So far this year, there have been more than 300 murders, and more than 85 percent of them were the result of a firearm, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.

Ray Jones, a community volunteer with the group Men United, blames state lawmakers for not passing tougher gun laws and for keeping cities like Philadelphia from passing their own regulations.

"It's about survival," Jones said. "People are dying in the streets and we need to get help."

The fight over gun laws has turned into a power struggle between the state government and Philadelphia.

Back in 1994, the state legislature overturned an assault weapons ban, making AK-47s as easy to get as hunting rifles. The next year, rules were eased on concealed weapons. Today it's actually against the law in Pennsylvania for a policeman to ask anyone why they want to carry a concealed weapon.

At last check, there are now 29,000 permits to carry concealed weapons in Philadelphia, compared to about 800 applications for permits back in 1995. One law enforcement source told me the state is handing out permits to carry like "candy."

State Senator Vincent Fumo is a gun owner, and he supports the current laws. "People want to think that this is the wild west, and we don't have any laws. What we don't have is enforcement of those laws," he told CNN.

Many here in the city argue that if Philadelphia had "home rule", as it's called, and the city was allowed to pass more stringent gun laws, people would be safer.

"It really would be appropriate for the city to determine its own sort of destiny," Jones told CNN. "Now our hands are sort of handcuffed."

Who do you think has the right to set the ground rules when it comes to guns? The state or the city?

-- Randi Kaye, CNN Correspondent

Tom Gresham & Clint Smith

...have a question for the Republican YouTube debate. It's an excellent question, let's see first of all if CNN will play it, and if so, what they're answers will be.



Now, do what I did and write to CNN and get them to play this video in the Republican YouTube debate. Click here for their contact page.

Thanks to The War on Guns for the heads up.

Men Who Own Guns Are Psychopaths

UPDATE:

After reviewing what Pat Brown actually said, I have decided to remove this post. It is my policy to be honest and admit when I am wrong, and I was wrong in this case.

Thank you to Robb Allen for the heads up on this.

For clarification on this, please follow the link provided to me by Robb Allen:

http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/06/28/pat_brown_responds/

Thanks!